On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0700, Professional Software Engineering
wrote:
At 13:42 2003-08-27 -0500, Daniel Liston wrote:
Just curious, if the "{" open curly bracket symbol indicates the
beginning of a sub block of rules, how does one apply a specific
number of characters to a rule?
You don't, at least not with that syntax. The regexp engine used by
procmail does not support that syntax. You might find this in the
manpages...
I don't think so. In fact, in my I have:
These regular expressions are completely compati-
ble to the normal egrep(1) extended regular expressions.
[...]
The following tokens are known to both the procmail internal
egrep and the standard egrep(1) (beware that some egrep implementations
include other non-standard extensions):
The answer to the riddle is that {2,} type syntax is a "non-standard
extension" (though possibly quite commonplace nonetheless) per previous
discussions on this list and not supported by procmail, and likely
never will be.
--
Hal Burgiss
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